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Feasibility Study of a Web-based Program to Help Parents of Middle School Students Effectively Communicate With Their Children About Substance Use

NCT05900115 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 576

Last updated 2024-10-23

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Summary

The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a web-based program for parents of middle school aged students. 286 parents and their child in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade will be asked to each complete two online questionnaires over the course of about a month, parents will also complete a web-based program between questionnaires. Researchers will compare the intervention and an active control to test the intervention program efficacy for improving outcomes related to parent-child communication, media message processing, and adolescent health.

Conditions

  • Substance Use
  • Parenting
  • Communication

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Media Ready Parent

The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.

BEHAVIORAL

Active Control Program

The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Innovation Research & Training

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-08
Primary Completion
2023-11-29
Completion
2023-11-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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